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76 Years after Colonial Britain Scheduled a Palestinian State, UK to Recognize Palestine
Colonialism

76 Years after Colonial Britain Scheduled a Palestinian State, UK to Recognize Palestine

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Nadeem Badshah at The Guardian reports that British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is expected to recognize a Palestinian state today, […]

Clear Conclusions: A UN Commission finds Israel Responsible for Genocide in Gaza

Clear Conclusions: A UN Commission finds Israel Responsible for Genocide in Gaza

09/21/2025 By Binoy Kampmark

Ghosts of E. Germany’s Stasi: How technology is used to supercharge Monitoring and Control

Ghosts of E. Germany’s Stasi: How technology is used to supercharge Monitoring and Control

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Can't We all Get Along?   Sunni-Shi'a Commonalities

Can’t We all Get Along? Sunni-Shi’a Commonalities

By Tareq A. Ramadan As we enter the Islamic New Year (1436 AH) and therefore the month of Muharram (one of Islam’s sacred months), many […]

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Islam
The Critical spirit of Islam against the mass insanity of ISIS

The Critical spirit of Islam against the mass insanity of ISIS

By Neslihan Çevik The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), having declared itself a caliphate, is now making a call to all Muslims (especially […]

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Epidemics
Ebola's not the First Racial Germ Panic:  The Long History of Xenophobia and Scapegoating

Ebola’s not the First Racial Germ Panic: The Long History of Xenophobia and Scapegoating

By Dan Dinello The attempt by some GOP politicians to tie the ebola outbreak to immigration issues is nothing new in American or European history. […]

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Democracy
Bernie Sanders on Breaking Big Money’s Grip on Elections (Moyers)

Bernie Sanders on Breaking Big Money’s Grip on Elections (Moyers)

Bill Moyers: “Bernie Sanders, Vermont’s independent senator, is angry about what he sees as big money’s wholesale purchase of political power. It’s a grave threat, […]

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Israel
Fierce Entanglements require Dialogue:  Israeli-Palestinian conflict rooted in their different stories about the World

Fierce Entanglements require Dialogue: Israeli-Palestinian conflict rooted in their different stories about the World

By Donald Ellis When I was in Israel for a year on a Fulbright conducting research I interviewed Israelis, Palestinians, and Israeli Arabs. I asked […]

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Bashar al-Assad
US Dilemma in Syria:  Moderate Stronghold Falls to al-Qaeda, Fighters desert to Extremists

US Dilemma in Syria: Moderate Stronghold Falls to al-Qaeda, Fighters desert to Extremists

By Juan Cole In a big setback for the Obama administration’s Syria policy, the al-Qaeda affiliate Succor Front (Jabhat al-Nusra) took the town of Deir […]

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Apartheid
Israel's Exclusion of Palestinians from Area C Costs Pals. $2.2 bn a Year

Israel’s Exclusion of Palestinians from Area C Costs Pals. $2.2 bn a Year

World Bank “If businesses and farms were permitted to develop on Area C land, 61 percent of the West Bank, it would add as much […]

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Civil Rights
Will growing gap between rich and poor influence midterm elections?

Will growing gap between rich and poor influence midterm elections?

CCTV “In the United States, the gap between rich and poor is the highest it has been since 1928. This gap is painfully obvious in […]

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African-Americans
Was Sen. Lindsey Graham just Joking when he Supported White Men in Male Only Clubs?

Was Sen. Lindsey Graham just Joking when he Supported White Men in Male Only Clubs?

The Young Turks: “”In a statement, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) tried to play off a joke he made at a private, all-male dinner as totally […]

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